Volume 17 — Documents of 1609
Reading edition
Laws regarding navigation and commerce. Felipe II and Felipe III; 1583–1609.
Jesuit missions, 1608–09. (From Annuæ litteræ; Dilingæ, 1610.)
Decree regulating services of Filipinos. Felipe III; May 26.
Sources: Two of these documents are taken from Recopilación de leyes—the first from lib. ix, tit. xlv; the third, from lib. vi., tit. xii (ley xl). The second is obtained from Annuæ litteræ (Dilingæ, 1610), pp. 507–532.
Translations: The first and third of these documents are translated by James A. Robertson; the second, by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University of Wisconsin. Page 27